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>> we have broken into space. >> as the world watched ground control in houston faced a formidable task. think of a way for the crew to fix their space ship, test it and then write out step by step procedures for the astronauts to follow just to get home. >> we immediately went to the simulators to try to do in the simulators what they had to do in the damaged apolo 13 spacecraft to get them home. >> we are trying to come up with some good ideas for you. >> one was to shutdown the command module to conserve the remaining energy and use the lunar module. a it was used for shuttling the members ...

Earth schmidt snappedt this photo, now known as "the blue marble picture." >> wehe had our view of a nearly full earth.ur i too took that from about 34,000 miles away. nasa tells me it is still the most requested photograph from theaw apolo archives. >> apolo 17 arrived to the moon on december 11th. and during the dissent to the surface, they learned that being in command while an honor is also a heavy burden. >> you had to change some things at the last second. >> that's right. but you can't push the stop button and say, oops, we have a problem. let's talk about it. >> you get down to 200 fee...

Imagine if i told you that next week or next month or next year americans would be landing on the moon. how huge would that be? so it is hard to believe that after apolo 11 the idea of going to the moon became almost old hat. after apolo 12 returned to the moon in november of 1969 some people were actually feeling that these trips were getting routine. then the world was reminded starkly they were anything but. >> an analogy i use, the first time youut flew across the atlantic it created a lot of news, but now we got hundreds of flights across the atlantic, and nobody cares. but we h never los...

President kennedy set the goal to land a man on the moon before the 60s ended. under president lyndon johnson the merchs caught up with the soviets and then passed them out right when apolo 8 orbited the moon, but no man had yet set foot on the lieu that are surface. lunar surface. and when president nixon went into office the soviets were not about to get their first. the next leg of the space race was a series of sprints. >> we launched a saturn 5 every two months, a remarkable achievement. >> each mission got thebl astronauts a little closer to their ultimate goal. apolo 9 launching march 1...

To use the lunar roving vehicle. but the apolo missions were winding down. would maner ever return to the moon? the astronauts of apolo 17 certainly hoped so. their amazing and what would turn out to be final mission after the break.